Quotes: Paradise

Paradise p.. 1215 "…then, everybody was a child…needed no fathers and mothers…no danger, no trouble of any kind, and no clothes to be mended, and there was always plenty to eat and drink; whenever a child wanted his dinner, he found it growing on a tree…a very pleasant life indeed; no labor to be done, no tasks to be studied; nothing but sports and dances, and sweet voices of children talking, or caroling like birds or gushing out in merry laughter, throughout the live-long day." “The Paradise of Children” Hawthorne’s The Wonder Book for Boys and Girls

Paradise p. 1216 "The truth is, those ugly little winged monsters, called troubles, which are now almost as numerous as mosquitoes, had never yet been seen on the earth." “The Paradise of Children” Hawthorne’s The Wonder Book for Boys and Girls